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I do not like destination weddings.

Asking friends and family to pay to come to your wedding, take time off work when you say and go where you want to go just doesn't seem right to me. (Not you as in MoneyGuy, but you as in the people getting married) Obviously if you live somewhere else or your partner is from another country and you get married there that's a different story, but if both people are from the same city and they decide to do a destination wedding, I hope they realize that a lot of their friends aren't going to come.

I have no problem going to a Calgary wedding. I have no problem buying a gift, or getting dressed up or spending a day for your wedding.

I was invited to a destination wedding for a friend that I would go to in a second if it were in Calgary. But since he's having it in Mexico I said no way. I'm not going to spend 2 grand to fly to a resort I didn't pick, at a time I didn't pick. Mind you, I have plans for my time off so I suppose that gets some of my attention.

I just think it's kind of selfish really if the wedding party expects a lot of people to show up to them. If they really want to go to a certain destination, by all means go for it, but don't expect a huge crowd.

I would love to go to my friends wedding, and I was excited when I heard the news. But once I heard it was a destination wedding, my interest dropped. Too bad for me I guess.

Time off is sacred in this country. We don't get a ton of it. It's not like most of us get 6 or 8 weeks. 2 or 3 weeks is probably the norm and to ask someone to take 1 week of that is a little sketchy. Throw in the extra unplanned costs of it all and it's just a bad recipe in my mind.